I posted before about a few inconsistencies in the Office 2007 UI, and now I found that there’s not even a common UI document model underneath the various applications. I did some tests with PowerPoint, Word and Excel — what I want is really simple: I want to be able to open more than one document at once, and I want each document to appear in its own window. Of course each of those windows should have its own button in the task bar (it wouldn’t cross my mind to mention this specifically, but …
Go here to get it. Mind you, I don’t know if there are any restrictions — I had registered on a similar page a while ago, in the hope of being on the beta at some point. You have to login with your passport and enter a bit of additional information, but once you’ve done that, the download starts immediately. Have fun!
Now we’ve been told about the fantastic Ribbon for so long… somehow I expected to find it everywhere (and I actually like it, but that’s a different topic). Outlook doesn’t have it though — are there not enough menu entries and toolbar buttons in Outlook to warrant the Ribbon? Then again, one look at the Outlook Options dialog tells me that the UI improvement team skipped this application… it’s as ugly and confusing as ever. Outlook at least recognizes the theming setting I made in another …
So here’s Microsoft being themselves again… hundreds of people are complaining about the fact that Office 2007 can’t be activated right now, at least since this morning apparently. It’s nice that I can run “the software” 50 times without activation, but as “the software” includes all the single applications in the Office Professional package, this isn’t very much. After having a look at each app just once and getting Outlook to the point where it now synchronizes with my Exchange server, I’m …
And it’s available as an RC1 release here. Well… I’m pretty happy that Scott won’t feel obliged any more to push his Mush idea, but otherwise the name change is even worse than those for Avalon and Indigo were. IMO, of course. Well, back to my Turbo-IDE with my Hyper-sourcecode… oh wait, is that Mega-Outlook popping up a notification? …
I had a Subversion repository hosted on a Linux server that I wanted to migrate to a Windows server. I managed to do this, but it wasn’t all immediately intuitive, so I’m documenting the process here in case I need to do it again sometime, or someone else benefits from it. To begin with, I found the wonderful SVN 1-Click Setup, which promises to do the whole installation of SVN on Windows at the click of a button. I thought that would be a good thing and downloaded it (here).
The installation …
This must be one of the stupidest messages in Visual Studio — how glad I am they kept it on board for 2005!
Let’s see: VS knows the file type I just dropped on it, because it can inform me about it. I have no solution open at this point — the internal state is just perfect for me to open a project if I want. I just have to do it in a specific way, and I believe this is the only file type I can open in VS where this ridiculous r …
VS 2005 has been the only application so far in which I have found a problem that’s clearly related to incompatibility with the new desktop composition done by DWM (Desktop Window Manager). It works for the most part, but apparently it has problems calculating the positions of certain on-screen elements. For example, with composition activated, the Intellisense popup always appears in front of the text I’m editing. Really just a small issue, but a pretty important one… Switching desktop compo …